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Vijay Kiran Sekar Loves to play cricket – Vijay Sekar Kiran

There’s a tendency to dismiss twenty-twenty cricket as entertainment and not sport. Fans of test and one day cricket are furious that certain players only want to play 20-20 cricket. Representing the nation has become secondary to playing in the IPL and other leagues, says Vijay Kiran Shekar . Cricket is a touchy subject in India and everyone has an opinion on it. Certain cricket commentators, who in their playing careers played only a handful of matches, voice strong views on captaincy and field placing. Also bowlers are told to bowl the right line and length. Vijay Shekar kiran The ball must be pitched in the right areas and short pitched balls will make certain batsmen from the subcontinent uncomfortable. Better still are the commentators who have never played any kind of cricket. Vijay Kiran Shekar They talk glibly about bowling an in swinging Yorker followed by a leg cutter in order to take wickets at regular intervals. Vijay Sekar Kiran is highly amused by such cricket c
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Vijay Kiran Sekar on poetry and song lyrics

Sekar Vijay Kiran, a poet who likes music, is of the opinion that the way poetry is taught in Bangalore’s schools and college’s leaves a lot to be desired. Often teachers who don’t understand poetry themselves ‘teach’ it to students. Everyone with a BA, MA, MPhil and PhD in English cannot teach poetry. If you’re lucky, you’ll have a good poetry teacher in school or college. But most students are unlucky in this regard. Sekar Vijay Kiran Given that most students know little about poetry, they confuse song lyrics for poetry. It’s common for school students to borrow generously from song lyrics and put them into ‘poems’ they write. Sekar Vijay Kiran isn’t of the view that writing poetry should be left only to poets. How will there be new poets if failure is not tolerated, he asks. Vijay Kiran Sekar From a commercial viewpoint, he feels, song lyrics have considerably more success than poetry. How many bookstores stock poetry by contemporary poets? A few do. How many people accept poe
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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Vijay Shekar Kiran on travel

Movies like “Zindagi Na MilegiDobara” have helped to popularize international travel. It is no longer the very rich that travel abroad. There are many affordable tour packages. Lots of people you know are travelling to Phuket, Mali and Turkey among other places. Newspapers regularly have articles written by journalists who were invited to different countries by tourism boards. Shekar Vijay Kiran has travelled to several countries on business and has studied the local customs and traditions. He feels that he has so much to learn about the world. Reading about Kilimanjaro is very different from being there. Nature has the power to delight you if you’re open to it. You can see your school geography textbooks come alive in front of you. Travel and reading expand your mental horizons. Travel has been considered an essential part of education for centuries. It changes you in ways that you wouldn’t notice immediately, opines Vijay Kiran Shekar . It’s important to learn how life
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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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